# Multiple boats sink at Trump boat parade on Lake Travis in Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 5, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905 "2020-09-05T21:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/81 "2020-09-07T17:25:05Z")
I think I’m evil for maybe enjoying those pictures a little _ **too** _ much! But I can just imagine how the MAGAts would react if those had been Biden supporters. My view is that they brought it on themselves, not by being Trump supporters, but by being morons, and showing that the two are pretty much synonymous. As for the question about insurance coverage, they will probably be covered (unless their stupidity extended to not having insurance, which would be fully in character) but it would be cool if they subsequently were denied insurance on the grounds of being irresponsible morons. It’s all part of Making America Great Again™. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/82 "2020-09-07T17:40:24Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > We need to celebrate the names of this amazing parade: > > Dumbkirk (as noted) > Operation Pettycrook > The Floundering Fathers > The Sinking of the Losertania > The Titanic Parade > The Blue Wave > How the GOP got wake > The klannish Armada Run Loud, Run Dumb McMAGATS Navy ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/83 "2020-09-07T18:05:56Z")
The Hunt for Blue November (totally stolen from Twitter) ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/84 "2020-09-07T19:46:23Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > As for the question about insurance coverage, they will probably be covered (unless their stupidity extended to not having insurance, which would be fully in character) but it would be cool if they subsequently were denied insurance on the grounds of being irresponsible morons. It’s all part of Making America Great Again™. What would be most fitting is if there were one or more GoFundMe pages out there to help support the “victims” of the Lake Travis outing, and yet not one of them actually represented someone who lost their boat in the event. Please do not link to any of those pages if so. They don’t need publicity. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/85 "2020-09-07T20:41:24Z")
McFail’s Navy ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/86 "2020-09-07T21:06:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > What is it with Trump boat rallies, not the trouble but why are they popular in the first place? Yeah, there seems to be something to boats and this crowd – recall how some of the MAGAnt Mariners crashed the scene at the astronaut splashdown earlier in August. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/87 "2020-09-07T22:06:43Z")
I think it has a lot to do with boat fuel: ethanol. Use that to drive your car and you can end up in a world of hurt (unless you or your parents can buy your way out of it). Boating rules, while technically similar, seem to be much, much laxer (is that a word? more lax?). I remember a bad TV series from the late '60s where the boat captain was never sober (though they mostly showed him somewhere along Skid Road). ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/88 "2020-09-07T22:12:59Z")
I’d think “foundering” fathers is both more accurate for sinking AND better for the pun. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/89 "2020-09-07T23:24:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Boating rules, while technically similar, seem to be much, much laxer (is that a word? more lax?). The rules are pretty much the same. It’s the enforcement that’s virtually non-existent. I live in Broward County FL = Ft. Lauderdale. We have a couple hundred miles of waterway and 10s of thousands of boats. At any given time all that water is patrolled by two, yep, two patrol boats with a total of 4 deputies. And only for 8 hours per day. meanwhile a few hundred police & sheriff’s deputies are on duty on land plus the state highway patrol. Sure there’s more people & cars on the land versus people & boats on the water. But percentage-wise the water is essentially unenforced while the land is not. Then add that drinking and boating go together like, well, scotch & water and you have a dangerous mix. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/90 "2020-09-07T23:50:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > …somewhere along Skid Road TIL that _skid row_ is a corruption of _skid road,_ if the [Grammarist](https://grammarist.com/idiom/skid-row-vs-skid-road/) website is correct: > The idiom _skid row_ is actually a corruption of the phrase _skid road_ , which refers to the greased road along which loggers dragged timber to the mills. The first _skid road_ is reputed to have been in Seattle, Washington. These _skid roads_ would have been areas where men gathered to look for work. When the work disappeared in the 1930s, homeless men still gathered on these _skid roads_ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlax/32/2927_2.png) [@Scarlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlax)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/91 "2020-09-07T23:52:45Z")
#BoaterSuppression ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/92 "2020-09-08T00:11:55Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > TIL that _skid row_ is a corruption of _skid road,_ My mother grew up in Seattle and made sure to pound into my head that “skid row” is wrong. Sadly, the corruption has greater reach, and fighting it is like getting people to write the correct “affect/effect” or “complement/compliment”. It is literally a hapless cause. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/93 "2020-09-08T00:12:41Z")
> [@Scarlax](#): > > #BoaterSuppression That or #VoterSubmersion ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/94 "2020-09-08T06:12:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > fighting it is like getting people to write the correct “affect/effect” or “complement/compliment”. It is literally a hapless cause. As long as we’re sidewinding into questions of cromulent word usage, my pet peef(\*) is the incessant mis-usage – by professional journalists no less – of the word “staunch” when they mean “stanch”. (Rarely the other way around, though.) (\*) peef n. Wild prairie-dog-like critter, easily caught and tamed, often kept as a pet. Pl. peeves. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/95 "2020-09-08T13:00:52Z")
It was a sign from Above. God is mildly annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/96 "2020-09-08T14:27:44Z")
“Trump 2020 – reaching the highest highs (Space Force) and the lowest lows (bottom of the lake)” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/97 "2020-09-08T14:54:00Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > (\*) peef n. Wild prairie-dog-like critter, easily caught and tamed, often kept as a pet. Pl. peeves. The peef is not related to the prairie dog at all, but to the _Ursidae_ (bears) family in the suborder _Caniformia_ of the order _Carnivora_. [Cite](https://www.amazon.com/Waldman-House-Pr-Peef-Plush/dp/1939881080/ref=sr_1_2?crid=23FVKTGBXYQOP&dchild=1&keywords=peef+the+christmas+bear+book+and+plush&qid=1599575706&sprefix=peef+the+ch%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-2). ---
**Author:** ![Mickyfinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Mickyfinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickyfinn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/98 "2020-09-08T14:57:45Z")
Agree. The irony is delicious. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/99 "2020-09-08T16:05:28Z")
You must be rich enough to have a big enough boat to not get swamped by the asshole with the even bigger boat to be a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/100 "2020-09-08T18:03:37Z")
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